Can't find soundcard!

[Hoyland84]

I've just done the stupidest thing. I wanted to update my alsa-driver and looking for the shortest way I ran the script on this site:
http://www.stchman.com/alsa_update.html

I'm sure this is a good script for those who actually have an Intel HDA sound card. I don't.

lspci tells me i have this:
nVidia Corporation Device 0774 (rev a1)

aplay -l now tells me this:
aplay: device_list:207: no soundcards found...

So I need help with cleaning up after myself here. How can i set up alsa to work with my sound card again. Be advised as I am quite a newbie (as you could probably tell by now). I'm running Debian, but I don't think that should matter here(?)

Joke's on me guys.

[Yellow Pasque]

First, uninstall the alsa sources you compiled:

cd /usr/src/alsa-utils-1.0.16
sudo make uninstall
cd /usr/src/alsa-lib-1.0.16
sudo make uninstall
cd /usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.16
sudo make uninstall
cd /usr/src
sudo rm -rf alsa*

Now, edit your alsa-base file and remove the last line.

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Finally, if you want the latest alsa suite, you could try this script. It was written for Ubuntu, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on Debian if you're running kernel 2.6.24 or later.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962695

[Hoyland84]

Thank you very much! This was just what I needed. And, yes, worked fine for Debian.